The Electrical Experimenter was an American technical science magazine that was published monthly. It was established in May 1913, as the successor to Modern Electrics, a combination of a magazine and mail-order catalog that had been published by Hugo Gernsback starting in 1908.[1] The Electrical Experimenter continued from May 1913 to July 1920 under that name, focusing on scientific articles about radio, and continued with a broader focus as Science and Invention until August 1931.[1]
 Electricity Lighting Liberty, August 1916 | |
| Editor | Hugo Gernsback |
|---|---|
| Categories | Science |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Publisher | Hugo Gernsback |
| First issue | May 1913 |
| Final issue Number | July 1920 Vol. 8 No. 3 |
| Company | Experimenter Publishing |
| Country | USA |
| Based in | New York City |
| Language | English |
| OCLC | 8740783 |
The magazine was edited by Hugo Gernsback until March 1929, when the Experimenter Publishing empire of Sidney and Hugo Gernsback was forced into bankruptcy; after that date it was edited by Arthur H. Lynch.[2]
Under the editorship of Gernsback, it also published some early science fiction; he published several of his own stories in the magazine starting in 1915, and encouraged others through a 1916 editorial arguing that a "real electrical experimenter, worthy of the name" must have imagination and a vision for the future.[3] Between August 1917 and July 1919, Nikola Tesla wrote five articles for the magazine,[4] and also published parts of his autobiography in segments in several issues in 1919.
References
edit- ^ a b Massie, Keith; Perry, Stephen D. (2002). "Hugo Gernsback and Radio Magazines: An Influential Intersection in Broadcast History" (PDF). Journal of Radio Studies. 9 (2): 264–282. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 4, 2007.
- ^ "Magazine Data File: Electrical Experimenter"
- ^ Michael Ashley (2000). Time Machines: The Story of the Science-Fiction Pulp Magazines from the Beginning to 1950. Liverpool University Press. pp. 30–33. ISBN 978-0-85323-855-3.
- ^ "Tesla Bibliography"
External links
edit- Scanned copies via archive.org
- Searchable scanned PDF copies via americanradiohistory.com
- Online archive of the covers
- Radio Detector Development, The Electrical Experimenter, January, 1917
- An archive of The Electrical Experimenter magazine